Economy

September 27, 2022
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Apps can pose bigger security, privacy threat based on where you download them

Enlarge (credit: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/blinkee-city-rental-scooter-is-seen-in-warsaw-poland-on-news-photo/1031626648) Google and Apple have removed hundreds of apps from their app stores at the request of governments…
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September 26, 2022
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Russia plans “massive cyberattacks” on critical infrastructure, Ukraine warns

Enlarge (credit: gwengoat | Getty Images) The Ukrainian government on Monday warned that the Kremlin is planning to carry out…
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September 26, 2022
102

Darth Vader’s voice will be AI-generated from now on

Enlarge / As James Earl Jones retires, Darth Vader’s voice will come courtesy of voice-cloning software called Respeecher. (credit: Lucasfilm…
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September 23, 2022
114

How 3 hours of inaction from Amazon cost cryptocurrency holders $235,000

Enlarge Amazon recently lost control of IP addresses it uses to host cloud services and took more than three hours…
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September 23, 2022
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Starlink is getting a lot slower as more people use it, speed tests show

Enlarge (credit: Starlink) Starlink’s median download speeds in the US dropped from 90.6Mbps to 62.5Mbps between the first and second…
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September 22, 2022
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Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art

Enlarge / An excerpt from the AI-assisted comic book Zarya of the Dawn, which received a US copyright registration. (credit:…
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September 22, 2022
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AI model from OpenAI automatically recognizes speech and translates it to English

Enlarge / A pink waveform on a blue background suggesting a visual depiction of audio. (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars…
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September 21, 2022
108

Fearing copyright issues, Getty Images bans AI-generated artwork

Enlarge / A selection of Stable Diffusion images with a strikeout through them. (credit: Ars Technica) Getty Images has banned…
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September 21, 2022
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The record-setting DDoSes keep coming, with no end in sight

Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. (credit: Getty Images) The record-vying distributed denial-of-service attacks keep coming, with two…
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September 21, 2022
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Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set

Enlarge / Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion…
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